Abstract
This study takes a contrastive approach to the situation of Galician and Irish Gaelic in the first third of the twentieth century, and to traditional music in particular. It is a period of significant interest in both Galiza and Ireland in terms of the cultural, political and social climate. Indeed, the current situations of the two countries can hardly be understood without taking these crucial years into consideration.
Highlights
This study takes a contrastive approach to the situation of Galician and Irish Gaelic in the first third of the twentieth century, and to traditional music in particular
The intellectual Plácido Castro (2017, 16) was welcomed in Dublin in 1928 by Professor Eoin Mac Neill, historian, former minister and hero of Irish independence, to ponder these old links: “¡Canto me alegro de recibir a unha persoa que vén de Galicia! É vostede da terra dos nosos devanceiros!” (How glad I am to receive a person who comes from Galiza! You are from the land of our ancestors!), the host commented to his Galician guest
The legend, which possibly came to be known in Galiza through social gatherings held in the late 19th century in Uxío Carré Aldao’s bookstore “A Cova Céltica” (The Celtic Cave), is collected in some modern Galician anthologies, according to Carré Alvarellos (1983, 154–5), who observes that “fue como los celtas de Galicia llevaron a Irlanda su civilización”
Summary
Se pretende con este trabajo hacer una aproximación contrastiva a la situación del gallego y del gaélico irlandés en el primer tercio del siglo XX y también a la música tradicional. No se podría entender la actualidad de ambos países si no se tiene en cuenta ese crucial período
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